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Yesterday was the first time that we’ve hit a major problem with it – and it was a significant one.
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Further proof of Google’s towering dominance of the search market has been revealed in the latest figures released by stats analysts comScore.
Their latest Internet usage figures from June 2008 show that Google has become the total don of UK search engines, notching up more than three in every four of all web searches conducted in the UK.
Western journalists are now complaining that their access to the World Wide Web is being limited.
The Times asserts that the International Olympic Committee has ‘disclosed,’ that “A deal with Beijing has allowed the Chinese authorities to block sensitive Internet sites.
Coming a little late to the netbook party but still hoping that its celebrity name will guarantee a good seat at the table is Lenovo, who have just announced their IdeaPad S10, a 10-inch mini-notebook running the 1.6GHz Intel Atom chipset.
Although it’s YARN (yet another ruddy netbook) that looks the same as the rest of them, Lenovo have an excellent reputation for the quality of their products, so this 2.4 pound 9.8″ x 7.2″ x .8-1.08″ little wonder might be worth taking a look at.
UK broadsheet the Daily Telegraph is dumping its paid-for online subscriptions and making all its online content available for free from today.
The new service will complement the existing news, football and cricket alert services offered by Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and offer news, sport and travel mobile content for users strutting the streets with 3G and WAP-enabled phones.
We’ve no idea why anyone would want an Ikea-branded mobile phone service, but flat-pack furniture freaks will be able to sign up to a branded Ikea service from Friday.
The Swedish furniture kings will be offering a mobile phone package to the 1.4 million members of its loyalty programme after the company snagged a deal with mobile phone group T-Mobile.
Back in the day, musicians on the road had to make do with scribbling on the back of beer mats when inspiration struck, but thanks to Tascam’s GT-R1 Portable Guitar/Bass Recorder, musos can lay down the licks in a tick with this pocket sized, high end digital recorder
Looking a bit like it’s mated with a mini-Cyberman, the GT-R1 is a high quality, portable audio recorder for capturing your ‘licks’ to MP3/WAVE at 48/44.1 kHz, 24-bits uncompressed.
The unit comes with a backlit 128 x 64 graphic LCD and and a 1GB SDHC memory card, leaving you ample time to throw some shapes and lay down your finest hammers ons, pull offs, slides, whammy bar wobblings and note bendings.
The SDHC slot means that you can add higher capacity cards letting hit your vibrato and go for a bite.
The unit comes with multiple effects built-in, no less than 55 preset rhythm patterns and packs a cunning “trainer” function which allows axe-wielders to rock along to their fave tracks at their choice of speed — without changing the pitch.
The Tascam comes in a rather pleasing orange/red finish which looks like it could survive being stepped on by drunken drummers or being hit by Derek Smalls’ codpiece enhancer.
There’s no UK release date planned yet, but the Tascam GT-R1 will be out in Japan on August 26th, with a retail price around £160 ($310).
We can’t wait to get our hands on an Android OS-based handset, and it looks like our wait may soon be over.
According to Hui-ming Cheng, Chief Financial Officer at enormo handset makers High Tech Computer (HTC), the company will start shifting their first Android-based handsets to ODM clients in the fourth quarter of this year, band on schedule.
Punters are failing to feel the love for the shiny new high tech Blu-ray format, with many happy to stick with their trusty old DVD players, according to a recent survey.
In a survey of 1,000 consumers, ABI Research found that over half had “other priorities” to shelling out for a Blu-ray player, although just under a quarter said that they were likely to buy one sometime next year.
YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly social networking sites and sites hosting user-generated content.” Most of the media used this to focus on YouTube and how evil it is.